This is fantastically nerdy, I just love it.
The V&A has added the first YouTube video to its collection, via a reconstructed watchpage that shows it as it was in 2006.
Because how else to you collect and curate the experience of watching a video IN THE PAST?
Full details on the process here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/acquiring-an-early-youtube-watch-page-and-its-first-ever-video
Well worth a read, it's fascinating!
#museums #collections #YouTube #VictoriaAndAlbertMuseumVA #TimeBasedMedia #preservation
This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.
https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial
#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies
New episode! 🎚️
Ever wondered what time-based media is? Ever wanted to know how you go about conserving something like that? 📹 Well we’re here to sate your curiosity! We’re joined by the fabulous Cass Fino-Radin as we try to wrap our brains around this topic: let’s geek out together!
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2023/06/15/s13e07-time-based-media-conservation/
#conservation #podcasts #conservators #TimeBasedMedia
S13E07: Time-Based Media Conservation
C is for: Continuation
We’re joined by special guest host Cass Fino-Radin as we talk about time-based media: what it can be, what the challenges are, and what we can do to preserve it. From mechanical components to maintaining software, we geek out about everything that’s wonderful about this type of conservation. Also tune in for a review of poetry pamphlet ‘Accessioning’ by Charlotte Wetton.
00:21 A long-time spreadsheet idea
02:44 A potted history of time-based media (maybe)
05:41 Conservation of performance art
10:26 The wildest thing about time-based media
12:40 Cass’ origin story
22:36 Blurry objects and things going off
27:54 More suggestions for what time-based media is
30:55 Old vs new technology
36:56 What makes a good time-based media conservator?
40:03 Review: Accessioning
44:54 Patreon appeal
Show Notes:
- Art and Obsolescence podcast: https://www.artandobsolescence.com/
- Cass’ website: https://finoradin.info/
- Pip Laurenson: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/people/academic-staff/professor-pip-laurenson
- Episode with Glenn Wharton: https://www.artandobsolescence.com/episodes/005-glenn-wharton
- MoMA Media and Performance department: https://www.moma.org/about/curatorial-departments/media-performance
- S05E03 Contemporary Art: https://thecword.show/2019/04/17/s05e03-contemporary-art/
- Episode with Annet Dekker: https://www.artandobsolescence.com/episodes/043-annet-dekker
- Rhizome: https://rhizome.org/
- AIC 40th annual meeting in Albuquerque (2012): https://www.culturalheritage.org/docs/default-source/publications/periodicals/annual-meeting/2012-annual-meeting-abstracts.pdf?sfvrsn=1dbb1699_8
- Cass’ company Small Data Industries: https://smalldata.industries/
- Cooper Hewitt: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/
- S09E05 Dynamic Objects: https://thecword.show/2021/05/19/s09e05-dynamic-objects/
- S06E03 The One with the Arduino: https://thecword.show/2019/10/16/s06e03-the-one-with-the-arduino/
- S01E09 Museum Pi: https://thecword.show/2017/06/21/s01e09-museum-pi/
- Time-based media according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_time-based_media_art
- Planetary app case study: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2019/05/16/planetary-cooper-hewitts-first-ios-app/
- Accessioning poetry pamphlet: https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/accessioning/
Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword
Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Cass Fino-Radin.
Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.
A Wooden Dice production, 2023.
Delighted that MIT has published a new paperback edition of Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, my book with Richard Rinehart—just in time to use as a reference text in my spring #DigitalPreservation course! http://re-collection.net
#collections #archives #museums #digipres #metadata #glam #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #DigitalArt #NewMedia #MITpress
Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory
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